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Give some simple rattan patio chairs a colorful upgrade this summer! This patio chair upgrade is super easy with DecoArt Curb Appeal. A big thanks to DecoArt for sponsoring this post.Is it feeling warm in your neck of the woods yet? The weather here has been absolutely beautiful, and we are trying to soak up as much outside time as possible before the heat of summer hits us full blast. Since the kids have been playing out front quite a bit, I have been needing a comfy spot to sit on the patio and keep an eye on them. I found a pair of rattan chairs I liked quite a bit, but wanted to give them a bit more personality and color.For this month's DecoArt project, I was asked to work with Americana Decor Curb Appeal, which is a great paint specifically designed for painting doors and ... [Read More]

Make your own DIY Scalloped Dresser and give a plain dresser a cute and whimsical upgrade with paint! It's simple to get a perfect scalloped design with this technique. This post contains affiliate links, which help to support this blog. Thank you!Lately the room in our home that has been getting most of my attention is my daughter's room. Since we moved into this house two years ago, I have been adding a few little pieces I like here and there, but it really hasn't seen much love until recently. ... [Read More]

When we were working on putting together our Outdoor Living Room Update, we really needed some kind of coffee table or ottoman to make the space work. It's kind of magical out a pretty coffee table can transform a collection of chairs into a living space. I wasn't sure if we wanted to buy or DIY, but when I remembered the recycled tire tables and ottomans I had seen floating around Pinterest, I thought it would be a great outdoor solution, so we gave it a go.Luckily, my dad is a borderline hoarder collector who specializes in old broken down Nissans, so coming up with a tire to recycle was pretty easy. The finished table looks great in our space and was fairly easy to put together, so I'm calling it a WIN.It did not turn out exactly perfectly (you can see how the rope goes a ... [Read More]

*This post has been sponsored by Porch, but all opinions are my own.When Porch, a great site for finding home professionals and DIY inspiration, asked me if I wanted to participate in their Pattern Play challenge, I jumped at the chance. Porch sent each blogger one roll of Scout & Nimble wallpaper and challenged us to play with pattern and texture to create something great.I decided to go a bit wild and choose the flamingo print paper because how fun are flamingos, right? Plus, I knew it wasn't exactly a safe choice and would push me outside of my comfort zone a bit. I really love challenges to use products or supplies I may not find or use on my own because I almost always end up with something I'm pretty excited about.Like would I have ever ended up with a fab ... [Read More]

Last week I was working like crazy to get my new craft space/office/library/kids' space all finished up. It is done and I LOVE it. I will be sharing a full tour soon, but in the meantime I wanted to share one of my favorite DIYs from the room with you all today.A couple months ago I posted a round up of some amazing marble paper DIYs. Around the same time, I ordered some marbled paper from Paper Mojo, but I still hadn't done much with it. I decided to use my favorite piece to fancy up our plain cheap-o filing cabinet.The lighting in that photo is pretty horrible, but can you tell how gorgeous that piece of paper is? It is really so gorgeous - the metallic gold and inky black! I just love it. I'm so happy that gorgeous piece of paper has a happy permanent home in my craft space ... [Read More]

Today, I'm teaming up with nine other bloggers to bring you guys TEN great recipes, projects, and printables for the Perfect BBQ! Be sure to scroll all the way to the end to check out all of the delicious summery goodness. But first, I'm excited to show off the latest addition to our outdoor dining space.Recently, I was browsing the outdoor section at Target admiring a turquoise and white striped outdoor umbrella thinking about how bright and happy it looked compared to the perfectly serviceable, yet perfectly beige umbrella I had at home. Rather than drop some dough on a new umbrella, I decided to work with what I had and give our umbrella a bright and happy upgrade.I started off by adding a hot pink stripe around the edge of my umbrella. To do this, I opened the umbrella up and ... [Read More]

Once upon a time, we bought a cute little round dining table at a thrift store. We refinished that little table, and I loved it. Then, all these kids showed up, and it was just too small. We needed a bigger table. So, my dear husband took boxes and boxes of outdated work papers to the recycling center, got 50 bucks for them, stopped by the RC Willey Clearance Center on the way home, and bought a table. It is the perfect size for our dining area, but that is really the best thing it has going for it. I am so ready for it to go away.So, of course, I have been contemplating my DIY options. There are so many amazing DIY dining tables out there, and I rounded up some of my favorites to share with you all.If/when I build our dining room table I'm thinking I would like something with ... [Read More]

Give an old vinyl covered table new life with this Kids Table Set Makeover. It's easy to update this table to give it a custom, modern look and a real wood top. This post contains affiliate links, which help to support this blog. Thank you!A few months ago a friend posted this little table and chairs for sale on facebook:They were a little beat-up, but I had been wanting to get a craft table for the kids and since I am a believer in the power of spray paint, I was definitely interested. She ended up giving them to me for free (so nice!), and I started my scheming. I have been wanting to refinish and recover some folding chairs for a long time, so I immediately knew what I was going to do with those babies, but the table was a bit more tricky.It was covered with sad, ... [Read More]

This was actually one of the first projects we finished in our bathroom renovation. In fact, we did this before I was really back into a blogging state of mind, so I don't have tons of in-progress photos, but I think it's still worth sharing if just for the transformation.This was a project where I really had to convince my husband to give it a go. He often likes to complain to our friends that I want to paint or stain every piece of wood in our house. That is not entirely true. I just kind of hate the honey-colored wood tone of all the built-in cabinets in our home. Here's a crappy MLS before shot of the bathroom, but you get the idea. Boring, builder-grade cabinets.Our bathroom was sad, and those cabinets were just bringing the whole place down. But I knew that with a little ... [Read More]

The Vintage Disneyland Room is slowly coming together, and this is probably my favorite completed project so far. The kids' room's design is inspired by the Disneyland attraction posters of the 50s and 60s. To keep with that theme, I decided I wanted to give the furnishings a mid-century modern feel.We bought this inexpensive (but real wood!) Tarva dresser from Ikea with the idea of sprucing it up a bit:I searched pinterest for mid-century dressers to inspire me, and loved the look of painting the sides and top, but keeping the drawer fronts wood tone (like this beautiful piece from Dream Green DIY and this one from Wood Bird Design)
We started out by building the entire dresser. In some Ikea hack tutorials, they paint or stain before assembling. It is probably easier to paint a ... [Read More]

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